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Al Capone, arguably the most famous gangster ever, has grown into a mythic figure, a sort of cigar-chomping, fedora-wearing, machine gun-wielding, vicious, ruthless monster. To Deirdre Marie Capone, he was simply Uncle Al. Technically, her granduncle, he was a bear of a man who taught her how to play the mandolin and passed afternoons in his big house on Prairie Avenue in the Park Manor neighborhood in Chicago where his mother lived, playing record after record. She recalled only once seeing his darker side, in 1946, when she was 6. In the midst of them cooking and singing, Capone said her granduncle, visiting from his home in Florida, got two visitors. He swapped his apron for a...

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Al Capone, arguably the most famous gangster ever, has grown into a mythic figure, a sort of cigar-chomping, fedora-wearing, machine gun-wielding, vicious, ruthless monster. To Deirdre Marie Capone, he was simply Uncle Al. Technically, her granduncle,...

What's in a name? If you're a Chicagoan and your surname is Capone, everything. There is perhaps no more notorious name associated with the city (except perhaps Gacy, or for a time, Bartman). Growing up, Deirdre Marie Capone lived what she calls a...

Two major characters fall victim to mob violence as HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” nears the conclusion of its fifth and final season with Episode 54, “Devil You Know.”
Chalky White (Michael Kenneth Williams) is killed after making a deal with his nemesis, Dr....

Chalky White (Michael Kenneth Williams), on the run for killing a prison guard and an escaped inmate, returns to Atlantic City with the intent of committing at least one more murder on “King of Norway,” Episode 53 of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.”
Seeking out...

Political turmoil in Cuba claims the life of shady entrepreneur Sally Wheet (Patricia Arquette) on “Cuanto,” Episode 52 of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.”
Sally and her bootlegging partner Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) planned to make a killing by importing...

Before gangster Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) explores a money-making opportunity in Florida, he takes care of business on his Atlantic City turf in Episode 38 (“Resignation”) of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.” First there’s an issue with German valet...

“Erlkönig,” Episode 41 of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” refers to a classic German poem about a father who can’t protect his son from a supernatural being.
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“William Wilson,” episode 43 of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” refers to an Edgar Allan Poe short story about a college student who in effect commits suicide by murdering his doppelganger.
Analyzing the cautionary tale proves too much for freshman William...

Knowing that a married woman is more likely than a bachelorette to win a child custody case, Julia Sagorsky (Wrenn Schmidt) proposes to Richard Harrow (Jack Huston) in “Marriage and Hunting,” Episode 45 of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.”
Julia and Richard...

As befitting a drama focused on Prohibition-era bootleggers, it was a bloody finale for the fourth season of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.”Who survived, who died in Episode 48 (“Farewell Daddy Blues”)?Gangster Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) is alive and...